We needed a place to rest between BoothBay Harbor and Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island so we stopped at Merchants Harbor. This is a rural anchorage in between some small islands which is well protected except when the lobster boats come whizzing through at 6am in the morning!

We needed to take Stanley ashore so we took our dingy over to one of the islands. Once there we found out that we had landed on Mosquito Island! They surrounded us in huge black clouds. We had to wait until Stanley did his business and then rushed back to the boat. They tried following us so we ran our dingy around in circles to blow them off. It was really quite funny, but I am not going back on that island!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make up for the mosquitoes the sunset was amazing that night. I haven’t seen a sunset that beautiful since we were in Maui!